After almost two years of evading authorities, Pirate Bay file sharing site co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested in Sweden on Saturday.

Sunde had been on the run after being sentenced to serve one year in prison for copyright violations back in 2009, with subsequent appeals failing to remove the requirement of prison time from his sentence.

Originally ordered to pay millions in fines, along with three co-defendants, Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundström, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Sunde's sentence was later reduced and the fines were increased.

The court ordered Sunde to serve eight months in prison, but authorities had been unable to catch up with him. "We have been looking for him since 2012," a Swedish National Police Board spokesperson toldReuters.

Following the original trial and sentencing, Sunde has maintained a relatively high profile on the Internet. Just last month he posted a campaign video on YouTube in the run-up to the European Parliament election.

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